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The Playbook Podcast

November 5, 2024: We’re finally here

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

News, Daily News, Government, Politics

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

After an election cycle that included an unprecedented switch at the top of a major party’s ticket, multiple assassination attempts against former president Donald Trump and razor-thin poll margins, Election Day is finally here. Playbook co-author Rachael Bade chats with national politics reporter Natalie Allison and Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels to see what they’re hearing from both candidates on the campaign trail.

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presented by BP.

0:05.0

Hey, good morning, everyone. I'm Playbook co-author Rachel Bade. It's Tuesday, November 5th,

0:10.1

which means the big day, election day, is finally here. Thank God. It's been, needless to say,

0:17.2

a roller coaster of an election cycle. We had an unprecedented change atop the Democratic

0:22.3

ticket, assassination attempts on the Republican nominee, and of course, poll after poll showing a race

0:28.5

that has been way too close to actually call. We are finally going to start getting results tonight,

0:33.7

though don't hold your breath that will know who the next president is by tomorrow morning.

0:38.3

For today's show, we're going to do something a little different. I'm speaking to two reporters

0:42.0

about the mood and thinking on both sides as we head into Election Day. And we're going to start

0:46.2

with Natalie Allison, who's been on the trail with Trump for the past several days and is now down

0:50.6

in Palm Beach for Election Day. Hey, Natalie. Hey, Rachel. Finally here. And I know you've been

0:57.7

following Trump around for a while. What's the mood on the ground at some of these rallies?

1:02.5

Yeah, you know, of course, I'm going to start with a caveat that it varies from rally to

1:07.0

rally. I will start with in Milwaukee on Friday night, the same arena if I served

1:11.5

forum where we were there for the Republican convention this summer, Trump was back there

1:16.5

and he filled it up. It actually at first looked like he might not. They had these black curtains

1:21.6

around the whole upper level seating and people were kind of still coming in, but they eventually

1:26.0

filled up the whole thing.

1:28.4

It was a big rally.

1:35.5

And then I caught a flight the next day to his rallying Greensboro, North Carolina, where he was also in an arena.

1:37.1

And he did not fill that up.

1:40.0

There were curtains around the whole upper level that stayed there.

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